Cowper lashlie



No. 749,3 9. PATENTED JAN. 12, 1904.

0. LASHLIE. COMBINED HAT AND CLOTHES BRUSH.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 14. 1903.

N0 MODEL.

WiiY LZSJ 6'5 172w i No. 749,389.

UNITED STATES Patented January 12, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

COMBINED HAT AND CLOTHES BRUSH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 749,389, dated January 12, 1904.

Application filed July 14;, 1903. Serial No. 165,427. (No model.)

To a whom it may concern:

Be. it known that I, CowrER LASHLIE, a subject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at Temuka, in the Colony of New Zealand, have invented a new and useful Combined Hat and Clothes Brush; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

This invention relates to a combined brush which may normally be used for brushing clothes, but which is so constructed that part of it may be moved apart from the rest and the smaller portion used for brushing a hat.

The article may be made in any shape; but the hat-brush-should preferably be slightly curved, so that it can be operated in the turnedup brim of a hard felt-hat.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view of my combined hat and clothes brush open. Fig. 2 is a plan of same closed. Fig. 3 is a cross-section of the brush on line B A ofFig. 2, showing flange that overlaps the hat-brush when closed in.

Respective parts a and Z) of, the combined brush are pivoted together at a, so as to be adapted toopen out, like a fan. The larger portion a is backed by a cover, which overlaps the major portion of the brush, Fig. 3, and under which the minor or hat brush will come when the whole is used as a clothes-brush.

The combined article will thus appear as a clothes-brush of the ordinary kind.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A combined hat and clothes brush, comprising a back having bristles covering only a part thereof, and a supplemental brush having bristles and pivoted to the main brush so as to fold in under that portion of the back which is not covered by the bristles of said main brush.

2. A combined hat and clothes brush, comprising a handle and a back (0 having bristles covering only a part thereof, and a supplemental brush I; having bristles and pivoted at c to the handle of the main brush so as to open and close in the plane of the main bristles, the supplemental brush being shaped so that when folded in under that portion of the back a which has no bristles, it will form a complete brush having bristles covering the whole of the back.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

COWPER LASHLIE. Witnesses L. MAUD WHITE, ALLAN BROOKER. 

